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Blakeley, Archibald

soldier, lawyer, was born July 16, 1827, in Butler county, Pa. In 1852 he was admitted to the bar and served three years as district attorney of his native county. He served as a union soldier during the civil war as colonel of the seventy-eighth regiment of Pennsylvania infantry. He was president of the general court-martial and military commissioner in the capitol at Nashville in 1862. He was in the battles of Stone River, Dug Gap, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Kidge, and commanded the brigade on Lookout Mountain during the winter of 1863-64.

Since the close of the war he has practiced law in Pittsburg, Pa. He declined the governorship of Utah, tendered by President Johnson; declined office of adjutant-general of Pennsylvania, tendered by Governor Geary. He is the president of the Pennsylvania commission for the construction of monuments in Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park.